My Family Tree is Full of Nuts

I received this email from someone 9/11/01

Chris,

Where did you find me? on Genforum?

We are not sure about the Buck’s County line (Pennsylvania) But most believe that it is the line that Garrett Van Zandt found in Mecklenburg, NC in 1765 Deed descended from. I believe that most believe that Albertus Van Zandt was his father or grandfather.

In studying my Alexanders who originated in New Munster, Cecil County, Maryland which is up on the northern border with Delaware and Pennsylvania, I find some land that my Alexanders bought in 1714 and next to it is land that Cornelius Van Zandt and Johannes Van Zandt bought. My Alexanders migrated to Meckenburg in 1750 and most all that family migrated there as well.

Do you have that on the Buck’s County Van Zandts? It mentions the fact that some sone of Garrett Stoeffelese bought land in New Munster.

I have 25 years worth of genealogy records in boxes. Some I know pertain to my family and some I am not sure.  I am about to start posting correspondence and just miscellanous notes here whether they are my family or a family I am not sure about.

Thank you all who served.

David Patrick Epps  my brother. He was with us until 1990. David was in the Coast Guard.

My father William Thomas Epps and Samuel Huey Epps. Served in the US Army. William died 1976 and Uncle Sammy died 1994.

Gary’s father Jack Keith Wheeler served 20 years in the Navy and his brother Patrick Wheeler served in the US Marines. Jack died 2003 and Patrick died 1990 in an accident when his Harrier caught fire and he ejected and the parachute did not open.

We miss all our military family members. Thank you for your service.

I am posting miscellaneous items I have in my genealogy boxes. I hope if any one of you know any information of if this is your family please email me at SadieMaesAttic@aol.com

Joseph Fitzpatrick born 1775 in Virginia

He died abt 1850 in Madison, Georgia

I do not have a wife for him at the present.

Here are the children listed

Renee (Male) who married Polly Watts. Renee was born 1794 and they were married 1816 in Greene County, Georgia.

Sarah R (Female) who married Abner Perry. Sarah was born 1810 in Virginia and they were married 30 July 1846 in Madison County, Georgia.

Mary B (Female) who married William R. Cleghorn. Mary was born 1815 and they were married 20 December 1837 in Madison County, Georgia.

Richardson or Richard (Male) born 1819. His first wife was Mary C. His second wife was Lettie Milligan. Richardson or Richard died 1860 in the Civil War.

Robert Guilford (Male) who married Catherine Shinn. Sometimes I see Katherine Shinn. Robert was born 1823 and they were married 24 May 1842.  Catherine’s father was possibly Moses Shinn.

Gilford Silas Fitzpatrick

Born 1854 inMadisonCounty, GA

Died  8 November 1928 inAthens,Clarke County,Georgia

Obituary:

Mr. Fitzpatrick, well known here, died Thursday. Mr. G.S. Fitzpatrick died Thursday night at his residence,420 Madison Avenue. He was ill for five weeks.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday morning at 10 o’clock by Reverend S.B. Wingfield, pastor of theWest EndBaptistChurch, assisted by Rev. B.F.Elliott.

Interment will be in theBucannan Cemetery,Winterville Road. McDorman-Bridges funeral home in charge.

The pallbearers will be Messrs. D.A. Carruth, O.H. Arnold, Emmett Wier, R.A. Burpee, Tyler Rivers and Charlie Carruth.

The funeral services will be held at the residence.

Mr. Fitzpatrick was a retired merchant and well known inAthens. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hattie Fitzpatrick, five daughters, Mrs. J. Walker Smith,Atlanta; Mrs. J.A. Parks, Atlanta; Mrs. B.F. Smith, Athens; Mrs. W.I. Stafford, Summerville; a son, Mr. J.E. Fitzpatrick, Atlanta; a brother Mr. H.R. Fitzpatrick, Athens, several nieces and nephews and ten grandchildren. Mr. Fitzpatrick as a native of Madison County.

I am trying to find the parents of Edward Lilly born 1813 in Enniskillen, Ireland and died 1889 in Athens, Ga. Edward was married to Sarah Ann Smith and she was born in Georgia.

Also I am curious as to who Minor W. Lilly is. You may click on the picture and see all the names. This is the Lilly Family Plot at the Oconee Cemetery, Athens, AL

**** I located a letter from a lady in Duluth,GA that gave me the following info.

Edward was a brick and stone mason and built Governor Lumpkin’s retirement home in Athens, GA in 1844 which, along with his land, was given to the Universit of Georgia and still stands today as the ‘Ecology’ building (also known as the ‘Lumpkin House’). He passed the trade down to his sons, and they in turn to their sons. The sons-or grandsons-built the warden’s house at the Atlanta Penitentiary, the Candler Building in Atlanta, and the smokestack at the Fulton Cotton and Bag Mill which is still standing.

Edward at some point went off to California goldmines(told to me by his granddaughter Margaret- but I’m not so sure it wasn’t to Dahlonega, Ga) and he came back a wealthy man and never had to work again!  (Janet, from Duluth, Ga)

Edward was my 4th great grandfather.

Edward was born in 1813 in Enniskillen, Ireland. He ended up in Athens, Georgia. He died April 19, 1889 and is buried in Oconee Cemetery in Athens, Georgia. He was a stonemason.

Edward was married to Sarah Ann Smith.

Click here to see Edward’s work. http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS-LH.html

Milliard Fillmore Jackson son of Alfred Jackson was born about 1861 in Alabama and he died July 1934 in Oklahoma or Texas. He married first Mary Frances William about 1876 in Ft. Payne, Dekalb, AL.  Mary Frances was the daughter of James Williams and Sara Jones. She was born 20 May 1859 in Carroll County, Georgia and died 14 October 1904 in Ft. Payne, AL. Milliard married Mattie Miller 15, July 1892 in Montague County, Texas, daughter of Madison Miller and Luisa Teakell. Mattie Miller was born October 1877 in Montague Co, Texas.

Rumor has it he was married to Mattie and Mary Frances at the same time.

Millard is listed on the 1870 Census of Cleburn Co, Al with his siblings and mother listed under his step-father Jasper Hicks. Missing from this census is Mary E. who would have been 14 years of age and James Alfred who would have been 10 years of age.

NOTES ON MILLIARD FILLMORE JACKSON

Census 1:   1870  Cleburne Co, AL with stepfather at age 9 years

Census 2:   1880 DeKalb Co, AL with wife and 2 children

Census 3:  1910 Choctaw Co, OK with wife and 4 children

Census 4: 1920 Montague Co, Texas with wife and 5 children

Notes for Mary Frances Williams

Mary Frances “Fannie” Williams, Jackson, Higgins is buried in the Jackson Plots of Walker Chapel Cemetery, Ft. Payne, AL as Fannie Higgings, indicating date of birth as May 20, 1863. However she was born in 1859 per US Federal Census of Carroll County, GA for 1879 and indicated she was 11 years old.

Further, The US Federal Census of DeKalb of DeKalb County, AL for 1880 indicated she was 19 years old. The census 1870 states she was employed along with her mother and sisters at the Carroll County Cotton Gin at age 9 years. This following the death of her father in Florida in February 1864 as a PVT in the Georgia Infantry of the Confedercy. By the time of the 1880 Census for DeKalb County, Alabama “Fannie” was married to Millard Fillmore Jackson with two daughters Julia , age 3 and Sarah age 6 months (Nov) 1879.

Milliard later went off to seek his fortune in Texas leaving “Fannie” and seven children. He was later reported by his mother to have been killed in Texas. As the story goes Fannie had a milk cow she was going to sell in order to have his body shipped back to Alabama. However his mother told Fannie NOT to sell the cow that she would need the milk for the small children and that she would take care of the arrangements in Texas and bury him there. He had in fact met and married another lady , Mattie Miller on July 15, 1892 of Montague County, Texas and his first child of this marriage was born in 1896. it is said by descendents who remarried in DeKalb County Alabama that Fannie waited the required seven years to have Millard declared dead before marrying Joseph D. Higgins and living with them were five of Fannies surviving children. Unaccounted for are Julia and Sara. Since Fannie never left the Ft. Payne, DeKalb area, it is logical to assume they are buried in one of the cemeteries in Ft. Payne. Joseph Higgins apparantly adored Fannie and though he was on 33 years old at her death he never remarried. He is buried in the Family plot with Fannie at Walker’s Chapel in Ft. Payne, AL on June 4, 1934

Cynthia Jane “Dollie” Taylor

Born: 1887

Place: Alabama

Married: December 26, 1898 William Andrew Jack Kemp

Married Place: Calhoun County, AL

Buried: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

Calhoun Country, AL

Father of Cynthia Jane “Dollie” Taylor

James F. “JimRoe” Taylor

Born: July 15, 1852

Place: Alabama

Married : 1879

Married Place: Unknown

Died: July 13, 1928

Buried: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

Calhoun County, AL

Mother of Cynthia Jane “Dollie” Taylor

Susan Garmon

Born: March 5, 1849

Place: Atlanta, Georgia

Died: August 25, 1938

Buried: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

Calhoun County, AL

Father of James F. “JimRoe” Taylor

David Thomas Taylor

Born: October 17 ,1830

Place: Georgia

Died: September 1895

Buried: Dearmanville Methodist Cemetery

Mother of James F. “JimRoe” Taylor

Harriet Finch

Birth place: Georgia

Father of David Thomas Taylor,

Joshua Taylor

Mother of David Thomas Taylor

Cynthia Thompson or Cynthia Thomason

Father of Susan Garmon

Adam Garmon

Born: 1823

Birth Place: South Carolina

Married: November 1849 Some records say Nov 10.

Married Place:Forsyth Co. Ga

Died: 1909

Death Place: Talledgea, AL

Mother of Susan Garmon

Jessie Caroline Simmons

Born: 1829

Birth Place: Georgia

Died 1880

Death Place: Oxford, Al

Father of Adam Garmon

Michael Garmon

Birth: 1790

Death: 1873

Mother of Adam Garmon

Mary Campbell

I am looking for information on Martha Elizabeth “Mattie” Epps who married James Young and then he died and she married Arnold Shearl who died 18 January 1947 in Centre, AL

Mattie died 10 May 1945 in Centre, Al

She and James Young had a daughter Othelia Samantha Young who was born in 1905 and died 1990.  I am sorry I am just finding that out. I would have loved to have met her. This was my Grandfather Samuel Huey Epps niece. Othelia married William Hopkins and they had June Laurette Hopkins 1923-1976  Billie Doyle Hopkins who married Harold Laddie Akins. Billie was born April 29,1929 and died June 14, 1993.   Son William Michael Hopkins who was born August 19, 1943 and died 1972 in Germany.

Anyone of these families please contact me at SadieMaesAttic@aol.com